Easter eggs are common during Eastertide as they symbolize the empty tomb of Jesus.

Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday.

Eastertide, or Paschaltide, the season of Easter, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts until the day of Pentecost, seven weeks later.

However, the Chronicle continues, " Peada ruled no length of time, because he was betrayed by his own queen at Eastertide "; Bede also reports that Peada was " very wickedly killed " through his wife's treachery " during the very time of celebrating Easter " in 656.

( Easter Sunday, for context, is the first day of the new season of the Great Fifty Days, or Eastertide, there being fifty days from Easter Sunday through Pentecost Sunday.

It is the first day of the new season of the Great Fifty Days, or Eastertide, which runs from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday.

In Eastertide, the Gradual is normally omitted, and a second Alleluia is sung in its place, except within the Octave of Easter.

* Writings on Easter, Eastertide and Lent liturgical days

& c .) we learn that Genesis was read in Lent, Job and Jonah in Passion Week, the Acts of the Apostles in Eastertide, lessons on the Passion on Good Friday and on the Resurrection on Easter Day.

In connection with liturgy, the term " ordinary " may also refer to Ordinary Time-those parts of the liturgical year that are part neither of the Easter cycle of celebrations ( Lent and Eastertide ) nor of the Christmas cycle ( Advent and Christmastide ), periods that were once known as " season after Epiphany " and " season after Pentecost ".

The Paschal mozzetta is worn only during Eastertide.

Accordingly, if in Ordinary Time one of them falls on a Sunday, the Sunday celebration gives way to it ; but the Sundays of Advent, Lent and Eastertide take precedence over all solemnities, which are then transferred to another day.

Since 1970 in the ordinary form of the Roman rite in the Catholic Church, Ordinary Time comprises two periods: one beginning on the day after the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord ( the end of the Christmas season ) and ending on the day before Ash Wednesday, the other beginning on the Monday after Pentecost ( the conclusion of Eastertide ) and continuing until the Saturday before Advent Sunday ( the First Sunday of Advent ).

* Solemnity of Pentecost always begins the first week of Ordinary Time after Eastertide

If there are three readings, the first is from the Old Testament ( a term wider than " Hebrew Scriptures ", since it includes the Deuterocanonical Books ), or the Acts of the Apostles during Eastertide.

In the traditional Office, the Te Deum is sung at the end of Matins on all days when the Gloria is said at Mass ; those days are all Sundays outside Advent, Septuagesima, Lent, and Passiontide ; on all feasts ( except the Triduum ) and on all ferias during Eastertide.

The Regina Coeli ( Queen of Heaven ) is an anthem of the Roman Catholic Church which replaces the Angelus at Eastertide ( from Holy Saturday until the Saturday after Pentecost ).

In the pre-1970 Roman Catholic calendar the octave of Pentecost is included in Eastertide, which thus ends at None of the following Ember Saturday.

In the pre-1970 Roman Catholic calendar, with its 56-day Eastertide, red is used during the octave of Pentecost.

The name comes from the first word in the 9th verse of Psalm 51 in the Latin translation, the Vulgate, which is sung during the Traditional form of the rite, except during Eastertide.

The only difference is precisely that an optional memorial need not be observed, and, with the limitations indicated for the second part of Advent and for Lent, there is the possibility of celebrating instead the Mass either of another memorial assigned to that day, or of the weekday, or of any saint mentioned in the Roman Martyrology for that day, or indeed ( except during the first part of Advent, the days from 2 January to the day before Epiphany, and Eastertide ), a Mass for Various Needs, or a Votive Mass.

His feast day is on 3 April in the West, but because this date generally falls within Lent or Eastertide this is normally translated to 16 June in the Anglican Communion, which venerates St. Richard more widely than does the Roman Catholic Church.

In the time or times when the word " Alleluia " is excluded from use in the liturgy ( Lent and, in earlier forms of the Roman Rite, Septuagesima ), the pre-Gospel chant either replaces the word " Alleluia " with another acclamation ( in the present normal form of the Roman Rite ), or ( in earlier forms ) is itself replaced by a Tract, while, on the other hand, those earlier forms of the Roman Rite replace the Gradual with an Alleluia chant during Eastertide, thus putting not one but two such chants before the Gospel reading.

The Angelus is replaced by Regina Coeli during Eastertide, and is not said on Good Friday or Holy Saturday.

In the Roman Breviary before the 1961 reform, a Commemoration of the Cross is made during Eastertide except when the office or commemoration of a double or octave occurs, replacing the Suffrage of the Saints said outside Eastertide.

The solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord is celebrated on the fortieth day of Eastertide ( a Thursday ), except in countries where it is not a Holy Day of Obligation.

Arriving at Bamberg at Eastertide, he consecrated the new cathedral there, obtained a charter from Henry II confirming the donations of Charlemagne and Otto the Great, and visited the monastery of Fulda.

The name comes from the first word in the 9th verse of Psalm 51 in the Latin translation, the Vulgate, which is sung during the Traditional form of the rite, except during Eastertide.

The Asperges is so called from the words intoned at the beginning of the ceremony, taken from Psalm 51, throughout the year except at Eastertide, when Vidi aquam, with Psalm 117, is intoned.

Both the Asperges and the Vidi aquam are structured like the Introit of the Tridentine Mass: 1st verse ( which includes Alleluias in Eastertide ), 2nd verse ( always from the Psalms ), Gloria Patri ( omitted in Passiontide ), and then the 1st verse again.

The counting of the Sundays resumes following Eastertide, however, two Sundays are replaced by Pentecost and Trinity Sunday, and depending on whether the year has 52 or 53 weeks, one may be omitted.

In such countries it is celebrated on the following Sunday ( the forty-third day of Eastertide ).

In the pre-1970 form of the rite, this season includes also the Octave of Pentecost, so Eastertide lasts until None of the following Saturday.

Pentecost was followed by an octave, which some reckoned as part of Eastertide.

Guy and Sibylla were hastily married at Eastertide, in April 1180, to prevent this coup.

The Stations of the Resurrection ( also known by the Latin name of Via Lucis ) are used in some churches at Eastertide to meditate on the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Christ.

By the Late Middle Ages ( 1272 – 1485 ) there were many incarnations of the ball game being played at Shrovetide, Eastertide and Christmastide in and around the British Isles.

He was murdered at Eastertide 1112, in the crypt of Laon Cathedral by citizens of Laon who had set up a commune in the city.

This passage lends evidence to the belief that the conquest of Brycheiniog ( Brecon ), led by Bernard de Neufmarche, was mostly finished by Eastertide 1093.

Peeps are used primarily to fill Easter baskets, though recent advertising campaigns market the candy as " Peeps-Always in Season ", as Peeps has since expanded to include Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day.

* In Queensway Cathedral ( Toronto, Ontario ) a Passion play takes place during the Easter Season.

Hanukkah Harry's second appearance on SNL was on Season 15: Episode 17, with guest host Corbin Bernsen, first broadcast on April 14, 1990, in a sketch titled " The Night Hanukkah Harry Saved Easter.

During his captivity in the tower of Seville, an Arian bishop was sent to St. Hermenegild during the Easter Season, but he would not accept Holy Communion from the hands of that prelate.

* Easter Season Resource Library-Crossroads Initiative

" On Sundays, especially in the Season of Easter, in place of the customary Penitential Act, from time to time the Blessing and Sprinkling of Water to recall Baptism may take place.

An aspergillum is used in Roman Catholic and Anglican ceremonies, including the Rite of Baptism and during the Easter Season.